An Apple A Day or A Soy Bean A Day!

I like to think of this as a "pulse" a day, since soy beans are supposed to be pulses!Tofu is made from soy much like we make cheese from milk.
Tofu is essentially the coagulation of soy milk. Since it takes some treatment
to get the right consistency it actually often continues fairly high levels of
calcium and magnesium to it’s already high content of protein and significant
amounts of iron. I used to profess that a pulse a day would keep the doctor
away. However, what it isn’t is a pulse, as this term is reserved for beans
used in their dried form, although soybeans are legumes, they are primarily
harvested for oil, so the pulse term isn’t really correct.

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